Poultry-coop.



B. DANLEY.

POULTRY COOP.

APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 14, 1912.

1 1 32,764. Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

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Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

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Application filed September 1 4, 1912. Serial No. 720.323.-

T all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I ,BYR0N DANLEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at St. Johns, in the county of Clin ton and State of Michigan, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements .in

Poultry-Coops, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein t0 the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a portable shipping, exhibition, feeding .or storage coop or crate for poultry and the object of the invention; is to provide an arrangement thereof whereby sanitary conditions are Specification of Letters Patent.

maintairied and the handling and feeding of.

the ion facilitated.

A 'ifufrthdrfobject is to provide a cheap and com; act construction having certain new and useful features in the construction and arrangement: of parts, all more fully described and one particularly pointed out in the claim', reflerence being bad to the accompanying drawings; in

Figure l is a side'el'evation ofa device embodying the invention with parts reas hereinafter moved to show the construction; Fig. 2,isan end elevation of the same with portions broken away to show the construction and one of the doors in open position; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail showing a central longitudinal section through a portion of the device and having parts broken away to shorten the figure; Fig. 4'is an enlarged sectional detail showing a horizontal secti-on through the device with portions broken away to shorten and narrow .the figure;

- Fig.- 5 is an enlarged transverse sectional detail; Fig. 6 is. an enlarged detail showing an elevation of one of the doors; and

Fig. 7 is a perspective view illustrating the door catch. 7

The poultry crate or batteryconsists of a suitable frame comprisingcorner posts '1 connected by longitudinal side sills 2, top strips 3, bottom end. strips l and end top strips 5 making a rectangular. frame of the desired size. This frame is supported upon caster rollers 6 which are secured to bars..7 extending across the frame and fastened to the sills 2. The frame is further provided with two longitudinal side bars 8 and transverseend bars 9, which end.

bars are arrangedin pairs spaced apart to receive between them, trays 10 which are adapted to be slid endwise intothe ends of Patented Mar. 23, 1915."

the structure between said bars and are supported by a series of cross strips 11. These trays are substantially"one-half the length .between the ends of the structure in each side of the frame. These trays thus divide the structure int three stories or tiers of compartments and form tight dividing walls therefor. v The sides of the structure are closed by wire gratings 14 and a vertical row of doors 15 at each end ofthe crate. The end-walls of the crate are formed. by strips 16 preferably of wire netting secured to the corner post 1 and between the transverse strips 9 to close the ends of each horizontal tier or story of the structure. Each tier is di vided into two compartments by transverse walls- 17 of. wire netting extending across between the posts 13 and secured at their upper and lower edges to the transverse division strips 12.. The whole structure is thus divided up into six separatecompartments with. a door 15 for each compartment through which access maybe had to it to "place the fowls therein and remove -them therefrom. A large number of fowls two compartments and extending over and supported by the cross strips 12 intermediate its ends. Each woven wire-strip 18 is supportedover and adjacent to the upper edge of one of the trays ,10: and stretched tight so thatit will not sag under the weight of the fowls, by means of transverse bars 19 which are .secured to the ends of the strips and these bars are each provided with horizontal openings at their ends to .receive bolts 20 which pass therethrough -'and throughholes in the corner posts 1.

These bolts are screw-threaded at their outer ends and provided with nuts 21'which may be turned-thereon against the outerfaces of the posts to draw. the bars 19 toward the posts and stretch the woven wire strip longitudinally. ,These bottoms being stretchedto a high tension, act as the memhers forthe frame between its corner ost's and a very rigid structure. I "the strips become slack under the weight of the fowlis they may be tightened at any time by up the nuts on the bolts and thus the fowls aresupportedby a smooth floor of woven wire and their'feet kept'in" a. clean, sanitary condition thereby. The, bars 8 and cross strips 9 and 12 areal-1 beveled at their -upper edges so that no dirt will lodge thereon and 'the sides andmls. the trays are also beveled for the mmapurpose. These trays are arranged 15 to catch all the dirt and litter and may be quickly and easily removed for the purpose of cloaning,;-thus making the crate very sanitary.

Suitable troughs 22 are provided with books 23 (see Fig. 5) so that they may be hung upon the grating 14 at the sides of compartment and this grating is. preferablyformed of straight vertical and horizontal wires which are welded or otherwiseforminga grating, the openings in which aim-rectangular and elongated vertically so that? the. jowls may readily extend their necks through these openings and eatout of i the troughs. r

Thedoors are'preferably formed by a wire grating similar to the sides 14 and they are hinge connected to the posts 1 by means of staples 24eemhrazcing the vertical wire 25 at the bacli'z'edge of the door and driven into the one staplebeing preferably placed above-and another below each of two of the horizontal wires-26v of the door. The staples by embracing the 25 form a pivotal connection for the doorand by their engagement with the upper and lower sides of the horizontal wires. 26, they prevent. the. door moving vertically and hold it to swing in a horizontal plane. A hook or latch is provided for each door by extending one of the horizontal wires 26 beyond the forward edge of the door and,

bending, it into a laterally extending hook is adapted to engage over the corresponding horizontat 28 of the side grating '14.. The downwardly bent end 29 ofthe'hook'is extended somewhat so that the hook' cannot be disengaged from the wire 28 without lifting the forward edge of 05 the door, and as. the door is held against such lifting movement by the staples 24, it will be necessary'to spring the grating and thus the-hook is firmly held in engagement the wire 28 and the door in locked position,

by the resiliency of the door itself. 'All liability of the doors becoming unhooked during shipment or handling of the crate is thus obviated.

In this construction a portable crate or what is known to the trade as a poultry cbiistruction and arrangement of parts at their points of intersection, thusfowis dean and in a healthy condition and the construc tion'i's'such that it is cheap to manufacture and is very light and strong.

Obviously changes may be made in the without departingefrom the spirit of my invention and I do not limit myself to the form or arrangement shown. 4

Having" thus fully described my invention what I claim is '1. In a poultry battery, the combination of a rectangular frame comprising side sills, corner and intermediate posts, spaced end strips connec'ting y the corner posts, and transverse strips between the intermediate posts, wire grating forming the sides of the structure, end walls, transverse walls of wire between the intermediate posts, woven wire strips dividing the interior of the frame into horizontal tiers of compartments and extending from end to end of the structure, strips secured to the ends-of the woven wire strips, adjustable means'carried by said corner posts and engaging the said strips onthe wire strips to stretch the wire strips longitudinally, and trays slidablebetween the spaced end strips beneath the woven wire bottoms and abutting the; transverse strips between: the intermediate posts.

2.7 into horizontal tiers of compartments, a pair of trays movably mounted in the outer'ends of pairs of the compartments of said structure and having their inner ends terminating at a point centrally of said structure whereby said trays. form the bottom of each pair of compartments, and adjustable woven wire "strips. extending from one end of said structure to the opposite end thereof above each pair of trays.v v 3. In a poultry crate, a structure'having posts connected by fbraminous walls, strips of'inter-woven wires horizontally disposed 0 within said structure and adjustablysupported by said. posts, transverse division strips supporting said intenwoven Wire intennzediate the ends. thereof; forain'inous partitions supported? between said stripsof interwoven wire. and having the upper and lower edges connected to said division strips; and dividing said structure into a plurality of superimposed compartments, and trays movably supported beneath said strips of inter-woven wire.

4. In a, poultry crate, the. combination with a structure comprising posts and sides, ends and a top, of a bottom formed by a strip of woven wire, foraminous partitions having theiowenedges thereof held in engagement with the strip of woven wire; bars secured to the ends of said strip, bolts engaging openings in said bars: and openings in said posts, and nuts in the outer ends of- In a poultry crate, astructure! divided said bolts to draw. the same through the said posts to adjust and facilitate stretching openings in said posts and stretch the woven the said strips of wire, and trays movably wire strip. supported beneath said strips of wire.

5. In a pou1try crate,a structurehaving- In testimony whereof I aflix my signa- 5 PE'SZS connected by foil'laminous wallsI strips hire in presence of two witnesses.

o inter-woven wire orizontally 'sposed within said structure and supported by said BYRON DANLEY' posts, foraminpus partitions having the V Witnesses: lower edges thereof extending through said GLENN DANLEY, 10 inter-woven wire; means extending through THos. E. ComnN. 

